Minor agreed to pay the Foundation over $17
million for the historic estate.PHOTO BY MELISSA
WILKINS

Claiming that he withheld his mortgage payments to the Colonial
Williamsburg Foundation as part of an intentional strategy,
financially troubled millionaire Halsey Minor lashes out at the
condition of the mansion in a
new story in the Williamsburg Gazette.

In the story, Minor talks of squatters living
in the 1755 dwelling, of a "caved-in" wall, and suggests the he
might have to remove the entire roof to find a leak that has
allegedly been causing water damage. If he's right, it wouldn't be
the first time someone sold Minor a leaky dwelling. And it wouldn't
be the first time he fought back.

Five years ago, Minor plunked down $20
million for a modernist house in the tony Los Ang...

How much did it snow on January 26? Well, it depends on where
you were.

According to UVA Climatologist Jerry Stenger,
most of the Charlottesville/ Albemarle area got just two inches–-
far less than the four to seven inches that had been predicted by
the National Weather Service. However, Stenger points out that
thanks to cooler air out there, the Shenandoah Valley averaged 7-10
inches from the late-January precipitation event.